Zora Neale Hurston managed to go against not only the discrimination of a black writer but also that of being a female anything. This breaking of taboo served to raise Hurston up as a main symbol to black women especially. She had several full-length novels published with the very themes that her success was built upon, her most popular one being Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Their Eyes Were Watching God was about a young black woman in the Deep South who set out in search of self-fulfillment, a goal that had seldom existed for any African American people in the south, let alone women. This theme accentuates that fact and thrives off of it. Hurston purposely shows the freedom that that main character attains in order to show that anybody of any race can find happiness if they only search for it. This goes along in accordance with the very themes that the Renaissance itself is based on -- equality should be a given, and anyone who wishes for happiness should have the ability to find it if they only try.
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